Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrap script fails on a fetch, can i just run it again?

[Hanspeter N. <fi...@sn...>]

On 7/11/23 2:16 AM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> I just downloaded fink 0.45.6 on my Catalina system.  I've installed xcode
> and java.
> 
> I got in the source directory fink-0.45.6 and ran ./bootstrap
> 
> It generated a lot of output (26000 lines) and then began to get
> "404 Not Found" errors.  This happened in the command:
> /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
> 
> It was complaining about the url
> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages
> and sure enough, if i try in a browser, i also get a 404.
> 
> And the tail end of the execution looks like this:
> 
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
> WARNING: Failure while updating indexes.
> 
> 
> ERROR: Bootstrap phase 2 failed!
> 
> So . . . should i just wait a while and try again?
> 
> If i redo bootstrap, will it be smart enough to skip everything that it has
> already done?
> 
> Am i doing this at the wrong time of the day?
> 
> Am i choosing the wrong mirror?
> 
> I just went with the defaults on all the questions that bootstrap asked me.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to the FAQ.

I think that if it gets to this point, Fink is already installed, but is 
just trying to download information about a binary distribution that 
doesn't exist (for 10.15). What happens if you open a new Terminal 
window and try to run this command:

fink list dpkg

If that doesn't work, try `/opt/sw/bin/fink list dpkg`.

Hanspeter
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